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- Thu 18:30The Council of EU Member States’ position to delay the bloc’s increasingly precarious anti-deforestation law is likely to be echoed by the European Parliament when it convenes next week, an NGO said.
- Thu 16:53A new guide for developing high-integrity carbon projects in the Brazilian Amazon has been launched to support developers in navigating Brazil’s evolving carbon governance landscape and producing higher-quality nature-based projects that can attract stronger market demand.
- Thu 15:29The government of Andalusia has formally launched Spain’s first blue carbon restoration project under its regional standard, with the aim to generate credits from the reflooding of tidal marshland in the Bay of Cadiz.
- Thu 14:40The government of Luxembourg has announced the launch of a marketplace, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), aimed at connecting nature-based projects with investors.
- Attempts to reopen standards adopted by the Supervisory Body for the new Article 6 carbon crediting mechanism, or revisit COP29 decisions on international trading to bolster transparency and reporting rules, look to have been quashed as clean and uncontroversial decision texts landed Thursday that would also see nearly $30 million channelled from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) towards operationalising Paris Agreement markets.
- Thu 13:15Access to high integrity carbon market finance could reduce emissions from HFLD regions; prompt decisions can accelerate progress.
- Thu 12:38Voluntary carbon markets should be restructured using project finance tools to unlock institutional capital and deliver large-scale emissions reductions, according to a recent position paper by a French asset manager.
- Day 10 at COP30 in Belem. Article 6 (should) also be cleaned up and pushed on Thursday, with overnight decision texts looking and uncontroversial, sources said. After this, the real battled in Belem will pivot to the meaty package Brazil wants to deliver, with the presidency now convening "shuttle diplomacy" to try bridge the unbridgeable gaps on climate finance and fossil fuel language.
- Thu 08:20Only greater transparency, standardisation and financial-market discipline can unlock the potential of carbon as a true investable asset class, argues Bastien Declercq from Marex.
- Thu 01:04Germany will invest €1 billion in the forest fund proposed by the Brazilian government, it announced on Wednesday.
- Bangladesh on Wednesday announced its national carbon market framework in a "pre-launch" session, setting out rules for how the country will generate, authorise, and trade emission reductions under Article 6 mechanisms and the voluntary carbon market.
